Amado Carrillo Fuentes

Amado Carrillo Fuentes (17 December 1956-3 July 1997) was the boss of the Juarez Cartel in Mexico. He was nicknamed "the Lord of the Skies" due to his use of cargo planes to transport drugs from Colombia and the rest of South America into the United States and Canada via the "Mexican trampoline". Carrillo took over the cartel from Rafael Aguilar Guajardo, and he was succeeded by Vicente Carrillo Fuentes.

Biography
Amado Carrillo Fuentes was born in Guamuchilito, Sonora, Mexico on 17 December 1956, the nephew of Guadalajara Cartel boss Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo. He was employed by the cartel and sent to oversee cocaine shipments in Chihuahua, and he went on to build a multi-billion dollar drug empire, making over $25 billion in his career. Carrillo partnered with Cali Cartel boss Helmer Herrera, smuggling South American cocaine into Mexico by air and then flying these drugs into the United States and Canada by making use of NAFTA's easing of border restrictions. In 1997, he decided to undergo a liposuction and facial plastic surgery in Mexico City, but he died when his respirator malfunctioned. On 7 November 1997, months after his death, the two physicians who had operated on him were found dead in steel drums, encased in concrete.